Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Oklahoma Doctors Allowed To Withhold Health Info From Expecting Mothers

the Oklahoma legislature voted to overturn Gov. Brad Henry's veto of two new anti-choice laws. One requires a woman seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound and listen to a description of the fetus before aborting. According to the New York Times, the law mandates that "a doctor or technician set up the monitor so the woman can see it and describe the heart, limbs and organs of the fetus. No exceptions are made for rape and incest victims."

And if that weren't cruel enough, the second law is more chilling--it prevents women who give birth to a disabled child from suing a doctor who knowingly withheld information about birth defects. In essence, the law gives a green light to anti-choice physicians to lie to patients--a clear violation of medical ethics and a shocking breach of the doctor-patient relationship.

Everyone gets a say except women. If doctors can lie about birth defects, what else will they be allowed to lie about to women, if they deem the truth too "inconvenient" to their personal beliefs?

Don't even start with sanctity of life. These conservative types are pro-war, pro-death penalty and probably pro-torture. And what about the life of the baby after it's born? They vote against health care and underfund education for children. They think their cloud god myth wants it that way.

Posted via web from liberalsarecool.com

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